Note:

VoiceOver works best with Safari. If you try to use it with any other browser, it may work for some things, but not as consistently as with Safari.

VoiceOver Shortcut Keys

Getting Started

Command + F5 starts the VoiceOver program. VoiceOver uses the Control and Option keys before each command. The combination is referred to as VO in the tables. The VO keys can be locked so that they do not need to be pressed to perform VoiceOver commands by pressing VO + ;.

Navigation

The following shortcuts will help you navigate common page elements. You can press the Shift key with these commands to move to the previous occurrence.

Page Elements

Task

Command

Next link

VO + command + L

Next visited link

VO + command + V

Next form control

VO + command + J

Next list

VO + command + X

Next graphic

VO + command + G

Activate a link or form control

VO + space

The Rotor

The VoiceOver rotor allows users to rotate through a list of webpage elements. Open the rotor by pressing VO + U.

When the rotor is open, pressing the Right Arrow and Left Arrow keys will select between different element types, including Tables, Frames, Images, Headers (heading elements), Links, Auto Web Spots (automatically generated list of structural and significant items on the page), Form Controls, Web Spots (user-identified page areas), Visited links, and Non-visited links. Once a page element type is selected, use the up arrow and down arrow to select a particular element and Enter to activate it. Escape exits the rotor.

Within the rotor, you can begin typing to filter the available elements. For example, with the Headers rotor open, pressing "2" will filter to second level headings. Typing "nav" will filter to the headings that contain that sequence of characters.

Data Tables

You can navigate tables in text areas by row and column, and sort by column.